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Who started the war on Christmas? - Dark Jaguar - 13th December 2008
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-09/who-started-the-war-on-christmas
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Oh, Merry Melodies everyone!
Who started the war on Christmas? - Great Rumbler - 14th December 2008
Merry Christmas
Who started the war on Christmas? - TrollSrREMIX - 14th December 2008
Who started the war on Christmas? - alien space marine - 14th December 2008
Dark Jaguar Wrote:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-09/who-started-the-war-on-christmas
This article traces it back to fears of jews and immigrants... Hmm...
To be honest, I have no idea why people are terrified of some sort of evil banishment of Christmas. People celebrate it year after year. The worst is when people think that phrases like "Happy Holidays" somehow are threatening. The intellectual dishonesty is striking when they try to say that people are being PREVENTED from saying Merry Christmas, which is simply not the case.
It's also worth noting that the very same people who tend to fear Christmas are usually against marketplace regulation, until the stores they visit stop catering to their own whims, then suddenly they want them regulated to force them to say Merry Christmas and if there aren't two Santas for every Manora, there's evil afoot!
Oh, Merry Melodies everyone!
Interesting since "Christmas" going back a few centuries was actually opposed by the church as a "heathenistic celebration", Christmas in the 1800's was more about lewd debauchery then the family friendly affair we see today, Christmas was a pagan holiday that was retrofitted into a christian one, Christmas was banned in many states untill the late 1800's. Like Halloween there was a Sanitization effort that changed it into what we see now.
The "they're stealing Christmas bullshit is ironic given the history of Christmas.
The american Christmas is heavily influenced by German winter solstice customs,Santa is Odin mixed with St. Nicholas.
Who started the war on Christmas? - Dark Jaguar - 14th December 2008
Santa's history is closer tied to an inversion of corporate fatcats (he looks like one but acted the opposite way) than Odin.
Odin is awesome though.
Happy Christmas, Merry Solstice, and Good Decemberween to all!
Who started the war on Christmas? - A Black Falcon - 14th December 2008
Really, the whole "war on Christmas" thing is at least as much a right-wing fantasy as it is real... there is a bit of reality to it, but not much.
Who started the war on Christmas? - TrollSrREMIX - 14th December 2008
I like the name Charlie
Who started the war on Christmas? - lazyfatbum - 15th December 2008
They see the wheels of my automobile rotating.
These same people possess substantial amounts of extreme dislike towards my person.
They go around the streets at regular intervals in an effort to apprehend me transversing in a filthy manner.
Who started the war on Christmas? - Great Rumbler - 15th December 2008
lazyfatbum Wrote:They see the wheels of my automobile rotating.
These same people possess substantial amounts of extreme dislike towards my person.
They go around the streets at regular intervals in an effort to apprehend me transversing in a filthy manner.
:FuckYou: